With Texas and Oklahoma on their way out of the Big 12, who knows what the future holds for one of the Power Five conferences? What we do know is that Notre Dame won’t be playing any of the current Big 12 members during the regular season anytime soon. The Irish’s deal to play five ACC schools a year, plus their usual rivalry games with the likes of Navy and so forth, only can mean there isn’t a lot of room for these schools on future schedules. There simply aren’t enough games over the course of a season to schedule everybody you would like to.
Still, with college football coming to a crossroads yet again, this is a time to look back. Even though the Big 12 and Notre Dame don’t have an existing relationship, it’s worth looking back on what the schools that will remain in the conference for now have done against the Irish: